Nine months after seeing his nephew and bandmate Takeoff shot to death as an innocent bystander during an argument outside a Houston bowling alley, Migos rapper Quavo has gone on a gun-control offensive: This week, he met with Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House, spoke on a panel about combating the issue during the Congressional Black Caucus legislative conference in Washington, and appeared on “Good Morning America” Thursday morning talking about gun violence in the U.S.
“I feel like your calling comes at the least expected times,” he said, according to the Associated Press. “You don’t think nothing is going to happen [to you]. I have to do something about it, so it won’t happen to the masses — especially in our culture. I don’t want this to happen to the next person. I want to knock down these percentages.”
A total of 48,117 people died of gunshot wounds last year, according to the CDC, the second highest single-year tally on record — down 1.5 % from 2021, when48,830 peopledied of gunshot wounds.
Quavo visited VP Harris and congress to speak on ending gun violence in wake of Takeoff's death
